Music industry targets workplace downloaders

Reuters via digitalMASS.com ^ | 02/13/2003 | Bernhard Warner

[GeneD]

LONDON, Feb 13

[rs79bm]

Oh yea? All 34 million of them?

[Ciexyz]

Workplace computers shouldn't be used for non-work-related functions. My workplace is very strict about that.

As for home systems, I'm sympathetic to the rights of home users to download for personal enjoyment.

[Skooz]

If the recording industry would open a few very large capacity, high speed sites which carried virtually every piece of recorded work in high quality (256 +) at a reasonable price for download, they would bury Kazaa, WinMx, et al AND make a bloody fortune.

But, it seems that Gestapo tactics are all they know. Pity.

[kinghorse]

Boo hoo. It's not like the artist hasn't adapted. First run music goes to the Dodge and Coors's of the world. You hear it every night on the commercials.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Someday the music industry will realize that it is the bad music...not the free downloading...is killing the music industry

The greed of the music industry (along with the actors unions) have killed the on-line audio and video streaming...probably the key of their success in the future

[CWOJackson]

I wonder which is more popular in mainstream America today: the music industry or France?

[Orangedog]

France

No one even cares enough about the music industry to hate them anymore. It's digging it's own grave with the download-nazis and their tactics.

[kitkat]

***If the recording industry would open a few very large capacity, high speed sites which carried virtually every piece of recorded work in high quality (256 +) at a reasonable price for download, they would bury Kazaa, WinMx, et al AND make a bloody fortune.***

How true!

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[SirFishalot]

My wife works as a paralegal in a large law firm here. One of their bigger clients, who happens to be a collection company, is currently putting together a new division to go after downloaders.

Their business plan is to approach record and software companies with an offer to deliver to them 50% of whatever they can collect for piracy, then ID downloaders with bogus files of artists from those record companies, then use the record that attempted download to obtain a subpeona for the downloaders info and download logs from the ISP, then using those records, bill them for any software on music that the ISP logs show them downloading. Supposedly there is already a company doing it in Europe. They hope to have the biz up and running by summer.

The internet is becoming unfun.

[Fighting Irish]

"If the recording industry would open a few very large capacity, high speed sites which carried virtually every piece of recorded work in high quality (256 +) at a reasonable price for download, they would bury Kazaa, WinMx, et al AND make a bloody fortune. But, it seems that Gestapo tactics are all they know. Pity."

Ditto

[Psycho_Bunny]

The truth of your statement is so obvious I've lately been wondering if the industry actually WANTS to make money, or if they're having so much fun whining they don't want to give it up.

[hunter112]

Interesting, but will legal attacks work on hackers with few, if any, visible assets? All this will do is force people who are dedicated to the cause to be more clever about it.

Sounds more like an attorney full-employment scheme, rather than an effective way to deal with online music file sharing.

[Paul C. Jesup]

(sarcasm)Music industry targets everyone but themselves.